Peter Ustinov Quotes
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By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
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The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
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Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
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Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
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If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
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Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.
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Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.
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Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
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People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
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Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.
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Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.
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I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
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Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.
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I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
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The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
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It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
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Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.
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Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
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Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
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The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.
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The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
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Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.